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Bulgarian MPs shelve vote on bill to cut state subsidies for political parties

June 21, 2019June 25, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Valeri Simeonov

Bulgaria’s Parliament postponed the vote on the second reading of the bill that would cut state subsidies for political parties

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutors: Anti-corruption body checking company properties of Bulgarian nationalist MP Simeonov

April 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

Bulgaria’s Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office has assigned the anti-corruption commission to investigate following a report about properties purchased at reduced

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s United Patriots divided as Ataka quits coalition council talks on European elections

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

The latest attempt by the United Patriots, the grouping of three Bulgarian nationalist parties, to discuss a joint approach to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ‘United Patriots’ remain divided over candidacies for European Parliament elections

February 19, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB) party announced on February 19 that he would be its

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Bulgaria 

Simeonov’s NFSB breaks off talks with Karakachanov’s VMRO on joint entry in Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections

January 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov

Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB) has suspended negotiations with Krassimir Karakachanov’s VMRO on standing jointly

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria supreme court acquits Valeri Simeonov on anti-Roma hate speech charge

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov

A three-member panel of Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has acquitted nationalist politician Valeri Simeonov of charges related to his comments

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Bulgaria 

Alpha Research: Approval ratings of Bulgaria’s President, government, PM and Parliament all fall

January 10, 2019January 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kornelia Ninova, Krassimir Karakachanov, Roumen Radev, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

The approval rating of Bulgaria’s head of state President Roumen Radev fell from 52 per cent to 47 per cent

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s government minority partner ‘United Patriots’ divided over fighter jet proposal

January 10, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Valeri Simeonov, one of three co-leaders of the United Patriots, the nationalist minority partner in Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s coalition

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian nationalist party congratulates Poroshenko on founding of independent Ukranian Orthodox church

December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russia, Ukraine, Valeri Simeonov

The National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB), an ultra-nationalist party that is part of the country’s governing coalition,

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